Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. Abbreviations Used in This Book XIII
5. Acknowledgments XVII
6. Part One. The Pisan Poem and Its Genesis
7. 1. Lineaments of Space: From Hugh Selwyn Mauberley to the early Cantos 1
8. 2. "Absolute" Timeliness: The Case of the Middle Cantos 52
9. 3. The Works and Days of Pisa 101
10. Part Two. Loyalty and Disloyalty to the Text: Poetics of Translation
11. 4. Confucius: The Integral Study 181
12. 5. A World Fit to Live In: The Classic Anthology 193
13. 6. Sophocles and the Tragic Dance 209
14. Part Three. Rock-Drill
15. 7. An American Tradition 219
16. 8. Stone Annals and Atomic Facts 231
17. 9. In the Sibyl's Cave 259
18. 10. Canto 91 and the Quest for the Queen 278
19. 11. Towards Shipwreck: Cantos 92-95 303
20. Part Four. Thrones
21. 12. The Edict: Roma and Byzantium 331
22. 13. The Edict: China and Beyond the Center 371
23. 14. Sounds in the Forest 393
24. 15. A Late Mythologem: Canto 106 425
25. 16. The Edict: Angliae Amor 444
26. Part Five. Fragments of an Earthly Paradise
27. 17. A Quiet House 457
28. 18. The Image and the Circle 481
29. Index 493